Hello, so one release later, 2.5.5 is available for Stretch but again not for Buster and not for Bullseye?!
:) — ciao, Marc > Am 03.11.2021 um 08:22 schrieb Marc-Christian Petersen <m....@gmx.net>: > Good morning, > > what's up with a deb version 2.5.4 for Debian 10/Buster and 9/Stretch? > > -- > >> Am 20.10.2021 um 10:13 Uhr schrieb Samuli Seppänen <sam...@openvpn.net>: >> >> Hi, >> >> Il 17/10/21 19:01, David Sommerseth ha scritto: >>> On 15/10/2021 13:06, Stella Ashburne wrote: >>>> Debian gets a major release about once every two years and the >>>> OpenVPN package is somewhat outdated. >>> You seem to miss my point. No, it is not out-of-date. It is fully >>> supported and receives bug and security updates by the Debian package >>> maintainer for the lifetime of the distribution. So far the OpenVPN >>> maintainers over the last 10-15 years has been pretty good at keeping the >>> OpenVPN package in a decent shape. >>> That the Debian repositories does not do major updates when the OpenVPN >>> community releases one, is a Debian package policy. So you will miss new >>> features arriving in new major releases. But the packages in supported >>> Debian releases _are_ _up-to-date_ in regards to latest security and bug >>> fixes. And this is what makes Debian releases far more stable than many >>> other more bleeding edge distributions. >> >> Indeed. When I add new distro support (e.g. Debian 11) to our packages I >> take the upstream (Debian project) control files etc. and use them as a >> basis for ours. In this process I very often have to disable several Debian >> patches because they are the same patches that we've already released in our >> own minor releases. >> >> So yes, Debian is keeping their packages updated with (a subset of our) >> patches _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
